intro-to-sausage-making_lead.jpg

How to Make Venison Sausage

If you’ve never turned the spoils of your hunting season into homemade sausage, you’re missing a major “link” in your field-to-table chain. It’s easy to get started.

Recipe: Greek Venison Log

Thinking outside the box, a creative cook can use ground venison to recreate structured meat. This recipe features pine nuts, feta cheese, black olives and spinach that create a moist and sophisticated dinner.

Must-Have Wild Game Cooking Gear

Turn your hard-earned game meat into mouthwatering meals.

Recipe: Swedish Potato Wild Game Sausage

This Swedish potato sausage recipe has great flavor, and can made as a ring sausage in a bung casing. With potato and milk powder as part of the ingredients, the end product is a light-colored and dense.

Recipe: Moose Swiss Steak

This recipe is simple to prepare with any venison, but if you’re fortunate enough to have moose, it will top your charts. The long-grained meat works well to create flavorful steaks that are slow cooked to perfection.

Recipe: Wild Game Leberkäse (German Meatloaf)

This south-German specialty-dish can be sliced for sandwich meat and served on a bun with mustard and pickles, or pan-fried until golden brown.

Gundogs: Beware the Burs

If you run a big, hairy dog, you know the drill after days afield: long hours spent untangling weeds, sticks and burs from the matted coat of your hunting companion. Follow these tips to make the chore easier.

Recipe: Waterfowl Schnitzel

If you have finicky waterfowl eaters in your house or hunting camp, this recipe will either fool them or convert them to feasting on migratory fowl.

Guns and Gear for Sandhill Crane Shoot

At the end of the day, you hunt sandhill cranes the same way you hunt just about any waterfowl. That’s no reason to slack off, though. Consider adding some of the following gear to your collection before you tackle this prehistoric-looking bird.

Turn Your Buck Into Bratwurst

Make hearty bratwurst with the meat from your buck (or doe)—instead of letting it sit in the freezer—by using a kit from Hi Mountain Seasonings.

Page 2 of 3

Interests



Get the best of American Hunter delivered to your inbox.